CBT in treating major depression

Question 1

one form of CBT

Answer 1

MBCT, mindfulness based cognitive therapy

Question 2

what does MBCT do?

Answer 2

encourage clients to develop different relationships w/ the negative feelings. to treat them as passing events rather than as the beginning of a trend- minimise their significance.

Question 3

what is a support for this therapy

Answer 3

Ma et al 2004, MBCT for clinical depression can reduce the likelihood of further clinical periods of depression by 42-62%.

Question 4

research has shown that MBCT

Answer 4

offers a promising, cost-efficient psychological approach to preventing relapse / recurrence in recovered depressed patients

Question 5

what is the issue with treatment research?

Answer 5

tend to ignore those who drop out / biased. Cromby et al- not carefully selected participants not representative of those with major depression.

Question 6

why are drugs chosen maybe?

Answer 6

psychological therapies involve weeks and are very expensive compared to drugs.